Posts tagged as “off topic”

Another year, another data point. 2/14/2013.

Prozanski is on it, RG has the story. 2/7/2013.

Let’s face it, throwing a party is risky. Realizations run the gamut from having to call in your colleagues to dilute a deadly seminar speaker, to throwing a runaway blast where everyone has so much fun they won’t leave and crank the music til 2 AM. So guess which one…

Here. Thanks to Hannah Hoffman for the link. 1/18/2013. It’s a high stakes gamble: Now Oregon aims to bring an approach that worked with 144 patients in Bend to Medicaid’s 564,470 patients across the state.

1/15/2013: Christian Withol has the story in the RG.

No, not to me. For now I’ll fight with Dave Hubin for public records the hard way. Give to poor people. Give Directly identifies needy Kenyan families based on the quality of their housing – i.e. mud vs cinderblocks, thatched roof versus tin. Then they transfer money to them directly, via…

They had skis and explosives and a destination … From the NYT, 12/9/2012.

Passenger to Conductor: “So, you got somebody up there watching the tracks as we go along?” Conductor: “Yup, the Engineer sits up there, keeping an eye on things.” Passenger: “So that’s his job, huh?” Conductor: “Yup. Well, that’s her job, actually.”

I come across a lot of interesting things writing this blog. It’s hard to decide what is legitimately in the public interest. I’m no ethnomusicologist, but these recent video clips are a must. 11/29/2012.

We’ve all been up that creek. From the Oregonian: About five miles off of the highway, around 11:15 a.m., the pickup attempted to cross Shitike Creek on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation but was stymied by the water’s depth and current. The driver and passenger fled the truck on foot,…

From the Statesman Journal.

or I’d be one of the Eagle Scouts returning their badges. I did get the Citizenship merit badge, of course, and Marksmanship too.